A New Horror Movie Passes ‘Obsession’ With The Best Rotten Tomatoes Score Of 2026

It Ends

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As we move deeper into 2026, we person nary shortage of scary movies being released. We each cognize astir the chaotic communicative of the megahit Obsession and the linear abstraction scary of Backrooms. Lately, everyone’s been buzzing astir the near-perfectly scored Teenage Sex and Death astatine Camp Miasma. But now, there’s a caller introduction to talk astir pinch a sky-high Rotten Tomatoes score.

The movie is It Ends, a low-budget scary movie that, successful immoderate ways, moves beyond the genre. It presently has a 95% connected Rotten Tomatoes, and that’s pinch 5 twelve professional reviews in, meaning that people is going to beryllium beautiful sticky astatine this point.

A 95% intends that arsenic it stands, It Ends has now passed up Obsession itself. In fact, it is now tied with Camp Miasma, which has dropped from a 99% to a 95% people recently, arsenic the highest-scored scary movies of 2026.

That has now altered the breakdown of the wide database of 2026 for awesome releases, with It Ends landing that tie.

• Teenage Sex and Death astatine Camp Miasma – 95% professional score
• It Ends – 95% professional score
• Obsession – 94% professional score
• Send Help – 93% professional score
• Leviticus – 92% professional score
• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – 91% professional score
• Hokum – 88% professional score
• We Bury the Dead – 88% professional score
• Backrooms – 87% professional score
• Primate – 78% professional score
• Undertone – 74% professional score
• Forbidden Fruits – 74% professional score
• Ready aliases Not 2: Here I Come – 73% professional score
• Evil Dead Burn – 71% professional score
• Faces of Death – 69% professional score
• They Will Kill You – 65% professional score
• Whistle – 63% professional score

It Ends is decidedly not gory/jump-scare horror, but much existential horror. The cardinal conception is that a group of friends return a incorrect move and extremity up connected a roadworthy successful the woods that simply goes connected forever, and it’s not clear if they tin ever time off it. I americium wondering astir evident questions for illustration what happens erstwhile they tally retired of state aliases if they spell effort to locomotion done the woods, but that’s astir apt answered successful the film. It reminds maine a spot of FROM and the looped roadworthy that causes passersby to ne'er time off a town, but nary monsters here, it seems. Well, possibly not.

What are critics saying astir it? Here are a few:

• Bloody Disgusting – “Writer/Director Alexander Ullom nestles an existential situation wrong his genre-bending roadworthy travel thriller successful his characteristic debut. What originates arsenic an aggravated scary movie settles into a meditative hit for an inventive slice-of-life metaphor.”
• The Hollywood Reporter – “Here, the threat is truthful outlandish that it’s not easy to wrap your caput astir it, which is why Ullom deserves in installments for delivering specified a dubious precocious conception pinch plentifulness of directorial craft.”

I’m not judge I expect immoderate tremendous breakout megahit occurrence here, but intelligibly this is simply a movie to watch for some scary fans and those who whitethorn observe it transcends that genre.

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